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Some of those nodes are broken, it’s got coolant leaks and the processors are 8 years old. I read in another article they meant to replace it a couple years ago but couldn’t due to COVID supply chain problems (makes sense tbh).

What I’m saying is, it might be “assembled” already but due to the power draw, you definitely don’t want to run something this out of date. It’s huge. Might be a logistical problem to even get enough juice for this thing. Another poster pointed out it might need its own electrical substation. IMHO it’s only worth parting out. Far too expensive to run.

Those cabinets look nice though, with the Cheyanne graphic on the front.

I’m an hourly customer service worker going to college part time as a statistician, so mostly I’d just be concerned at what sort of operation this person is running but accept the promotion.

I wonder what happens when the last whale has been milked dry.

I have some bad news for you friend.

I work at a casino. There is no end of whales. There are whales that are rich enough to sustain their habits and spend more than you or I could morally spend if we had the means. Then, there are whales that spend outside their means, burn out, and are replaced by a new person who does the same thing.

When a whale (highroller) stops coming, we usually assume they’ve gone to one of our competitor’s casinos.

I see no reason why this wouldn’t apply to real-money transactions in video games. It’s just another casino.

In the game, too.

I must point out, I don’t remember sexual violence being part of the game (I played only 3 and 4, though).

I really wish they hadn’t included it. I personally found it unenjoyable to watch those first couple episodes because of it.

(Dear reader: If you’re first reaction to my opinion is that sexual violence against women in this setting is realistic and fits in the show, 1) this is a series with mutant animals caused by radiation and a guy in a robot suit 2) you don’t think much of your fellow man if you think it’s inevitable 3) it’s just like, my opinion, man)

I haven’t watched the whole first season but we’re about halfway through and they didn’t mention it again. It would have been worse if the main character herself felt more… harmed, but she seems very utilitarian about it. I feel pretty mid about the show overall (for more reasons than just this), and I’m just really tired of acts of sexual violence showing up in media that’s meant to be goofy entertainment.

I can’t believe this comment chain is this long and no one has pointed out that drunk and stoned humans are terrible at figuring stuff like this out.

You’re not planning for the dumbest human trying in earnest. You’re planning for humans who are tired, distracted and/or chemically altered. A 80 IQ person can figure out a weird trash can eventually if they are trying.

These comments (not just yours) feel misanthropic. I haven’t been to a campsite in ages so I don’t know what sort of trash can puzzlebox we’re talking about, but I work somewhere with alcohol so I can guess what the true issue is.

achievable goals and a clear path to success

I’d settle for fast travel

You might find friends here if you weren’t so combative. This community is full of socialists, communists and other related left-leaning folks, not democrats.

We still see republicans for who they are: fascists, in the traditional meaning of the word, not as a catch-all insult for people we don’t like.

You seem to be very enthusiastic about criticizing apple.

I just own an iPhone so I don’t think I can engage with you with all these critiques. I bought it because at that point in time, it was cheaper than a Samsung. I had concerns about privacy, and it seemed like apple had better control of their App Store and there was less crapware there.

I had tried a custom android rom before this (it must have been around 2013, cyanogenmod) but it was too early in development maybe, and it sucked. It might have been the phone I installed it on. At any rate, I gave up on custom roms for a bit.

My job uses iPhones for an industry specific dispatch software that does not use the cellular network. So I am glad Im familiar with iPhone software, though I wouldn’t have bought one just for this reason. They were using iPods for the software before that, but the iPods didn’t have replaceable batteries and had to be disposed of (which is a shame, they were much smaller)

My iphone is 5-6 years old now, I’ll buy something else when I have to. Probably something I can try lineageOS or whatever the new rom is.

bladerunner 2049

It’s a futuristic sci fi movie so it might not be what you’re looking for. Loneliness and alienation are central themes, though

I use compact view in liftoff, so I think that’s why I’ve never seen this problem.

I can’t parse this paragraph.

14/6 has a solution, its 2.3333……

Multiply 14/6 by 6 and you get 14 again. You can always go back to the initial state when you know what actions are taken, unless you’ve multiplied by 0.

There are some good answers here already. I feel the need to add something, though.

If I gave you a number, 6, and multiplied it by 2 you’d get 12. If I asked you to “undo” the multiplication, you’d divide it by 2. So, you can think of division as the “inverse” of multiplication.

So: 12 * 1/2 = 6.

6, when doubled is 12, and 12, when halved, is 6. You can never double 6 and get 14. We say that multiplication between two (nonzero) numbers has a one-to-one relationship.

Then, let’s say I asked you what 0*6 is. And you’d say 0*6=0.

Then, let’s say I didn’t know what we started with. I give you this equation and ask you to find a value for x:

0*x=0

What is x? X can be anything here, 1, 17, pi, all numbers work. You can even choose 0.

Could you try 0*x*1/0=? How would you choose one number to be correct?

There is no “undo” button here. 1/0 is meaningless because we can’t assign it a unique value. A math person would say, “0 has no multiplicative inverse”.

Those obscure websites you were referring to had a high barrier to entry

Barrier for entry? I had a geocities page when I was around 11 or 12 (and it was free, geocities ran banner ads on my page. I could host something like 50mb-100mb in pictures). I learned HTML because I played a webgame called Neopets, and you could customize little webpages for your pets and your shopfront. I think it had CSS too (and it was the new thing!).

The barrier wasn’t making a website, it was visibility. How many human visitors do you think my geocities page got? Pretty sure just the people in the webring I joined, and my mom. But I spent a lot of my time looking at other people’s obscure geocities pages about pokemon or their doodles or whatever. Was my page very useful or interesting? No, but it was my little corner of the internet, and I was so excited to visit other people’s fan pages and add them to my links list or whatever. Or figure out how they pulled off some new rad html stuff that I had to do for myself.

I had to take my geocities page down. There was a form on my site so people could send me cool facts about pokemon (it would show up in my email which my mom had access to), and someone typed up some awful pokemon sex story, so my mom made me take it down!

Anyway, I’m not sure what I was trying to say, but no, it was braindead simple and freely available to make a website. The internet was more human. Other kids at my school knew how to do it. Not sure what kids would say these days if you asked them to put their doodles on the internet. They’d upload it somewhere, where people can comment on it, upvote it, downvote it. My geocities page was entirely mine, nobody was there to judge or monetize my shitty doodles (outside of banner ads)

Only if the deposit is over the threshold for KYC laws. (If the threshold is $X, and you get $X in chips, you will need KYC stuff collected from you).

Otherwise no:

Patron A goes to the table and receives $50 in chips. No information is exchanged. No chips are cashed out at the cashier because Patron A lost it all at blackjack. No KYC.

Patron B goes to the table and receives $50 in chips. He does well at the tables and makes several good bets that means he’s ahead $X dollars. Since he won this in several bets, there is no taxable event, but trying to cash out $X in chips is a currency exchange and means the casino now needs to gather KYC information on him.

Most people (99%) gamble like patron A. Patron B is inconvenienced because of Patron C:

Patron C stuffs $X dollars into a slot machine and cashes out without gambling. Patron C now has $X in slot tickets, which he attempts to exchange at the cashier window. His goal is to claim his $X came from gambling winnings and not wherever it actually came from. The cashier has to collect KYC info on him, and the goal is to make a paper trail so the casino can comply with state/federal law.

Patron C has a lot of other creative things he can try to do to get around these laws (see structuring)

Since most people are going to fall in category A, the casino wants to make the barrier for gambling very very low. They will only ask what is absolutely necessary at the moment. This is why those websites don’t ask for scans of your license or blood-type or whatever when you sign up, because they don’t need to if they’re just taking your $50. I haven’t used a gambling website but if they’re US based they have to follow US law.

Me too, friend. To avoid KYC laws at a casino I recommend not gambling significant amounts of money.

I wish I didn’t need a bank account, then I wouldn’t have to deal with it at all.

Also true, however, there are times you cash out more than you deposit (sometimes people win). Edit: there are thresholds of amount of money you need to start moving around before the casino will pester you for more info, because most people don’t need to bother because they don’t meet those thresholds.

Casinos have to comply with Know Your Customer laws like banks. This is to stop money laundering.

There are great reasons to dislike casinos, this is not one of them. Also, online casinos are probably shady AF, why are you using one?

I don’t need to do this. I already gave it to Steam, why don’t you write an email and get it from them?

Why isn’t anyone talking about how much this link is exaggerating all of it’s points? Did anyone read it? Disclaimer: I use steam and I take the good with the bad.

It collects your address, CC info, name etc – It’s an online store. You give it this info to purchase things. It’s quite clear why this is happening. Don’t like it? Don’t shop online. Actually, don’t use a credit/debit card at all because they are certainly recording your spending habits and selling that data.

t was proven that Steam’s VAC system records your internet history and uploads it to an official Valve server – This claim is from a Reddit thread. These redditors reverse engineered some VAC stuff (anticheat for some games like Counterstrike) and found that Steam was (and may no longer be) hashing visited URLS. These hashes were checked locally (within the software, not over the internet) against a list of known hashes for URLS for cheat software. If positive, these hashes were sent over the internet to valve, and could be used for evidence to ban cheaters. This is bad! It is recording user’s internet habits without their knowledge or consent. HOWEVER, it is a total exaggeration to claim Valve is just recording all your internet history and sending it to a server somewhere. Could they do it? This is a risk for closed-sourced software but this isn’t what was happening.

Steam records and publicly broadcasts your program usage habits – Steam does track your program use habits and this is bad! Every console does this now, though, unless you decide to not connect it to the internet. But this site also claims it does it publicly and this is an exaggeration: You are anonymous on steam to the “public” unless you de-anonymize yourself, and you can turn off your “public” broadcast of game play in the settings. The author seems to think steam is a social media network: It only is if you use it that way. It doesn’t recommend friends to you or send you news articles or whatever.

Steam attempts to collect your telephone number – Account theft is a problem on steam. The phone number thing is a way they can implement two-factor for people allergic to learning how to secure their accounts (some people on steam are also children, I must point out). This makes their platform harder for scammers to use. I use their phone app for two-factor authentication, I don’t know if they accept other 3rd party authenticators.

Steam requires an internet connection etc It’s an online storefront program??? You knew what you were getting into when you downloaded it. I don’t like how it needs to be constantly connected, this is bad, true.

Steam is self-updating software – It’s DRM yes, true. It’s annoying, sure.

Yes, I totally get it, I could live in the woods, just use cash to purchase everything and only play unpatched games on offline consoles I don’t connect to the internet. Don’t all AAA games come with some form of DRM these days? Does the person who wrote this article also avoid streaming services and digital cable because it also records your entertainment habits? Do you, @zer0@thelemmy.club? Are you addicted to streaming services and debit cards?

Anyway, this is a ridiculous burden for the consumer to avoid all this. That’s my point. If you’d like this to change, it needs legislation to restrict what corporations do with our data, not SCARY CAPS LOCK IN RED TEXT.